InnoCentive expands staff

InnoCentive Inc. announced new hires to meet increased demand for its online Open Innovation Marketplace.

A Web-based community headquartered in Andover, InnoCentive helps corporate and nonprofit clients solve research-and-development problems by posting descriptions of these problems on a website visited by thousands of researchers, scientists, engineers, and mathematicians from around the world; scientists who solve these problemes qualify for financial rewards.

Among the new hires are Rachel Blankstein, director of product management; Tom Clements, West Coast director; Sherrill Cooke, director of business development; Jon Fredrickson, director of sales; and Meg Temple, director of marketing, InnoCentive said.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)